Lecture capture technology — technically possible, but can it be used effectively?

Lecture Capture: What Can Be Automated?

Hyperthermia: How Can It Be Used?

Hyperthermia (HT) is a method used to treat tumors by increasing the temperature of the cells. The treatment can be applied in combination with other verified cancer treatments using several different procedures. We sought to present an overview of the different HT tumor treatment, recent advances in the field, and combinational treatment sequences and outcomes. We used a computer-aided search ...

How effectively can HIV phylogenies be used to measure heritability?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The severity of HIV-1 infection, measured by set-point viral load (SPVL), is highly variable between individuals. Its heritability between infections quantifies the control the pathogen genotype has over disease severity. Heritability estimates vary widely between studies, but differences in methods make comparison difficult. Phylogenetic comparative analysis offers me...

Can a senior house officer's time be used more effectively?

OBJECTIVES To determine the amount of time senior house officers (SHO) spent performing tasks that could be delegated to a technician or administrative assistant and therefore to quantify the expected benefit that could be obtained by employing such physicians' assistants (PA). METHODS SHOs working in the emergency department were observed for one week by pre-clinical students who had been tr...

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries